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 to their Culture; for let a Giant and a Dwarf et out in the ame Path, the Giant at every Step will acquire a new Advantage over the Dwarf. Now, if we compare the prodigious Variety in the Education and Manner of living of the different Orders of Men in a civil State, with the Simplicity and Uniformity that prevails in the animal and avage Life, where all the Individuals make ue of the ame Aliments, live in the ame Manner, and do exactly the ame things, we hall eaily conceive how much the Difference between Man and Man in the State of Nature mut be les than in the State of Society, and how much every Inequality of Intitution mut increae the natural Inequalities of the Human Species.

But tho' Nature in the Ditribution of her Gifts hould really affect all the Preferences that are acribed to her, what